Dear Dish on Cotton Swabs
Dear Consumer Advocate Dish:
I purchased 400 "no-name" brand Q-tips. Previously, I enjoyed the expensive cotton-y goodness of Q-tip brand Q-tips.
I'm unsatisfied with my cheap Q-tip knock-offs. They just don't have the same volume-filled pile of cotton. They're cheap on the cotton front. Cheap, I say!
What should I do? Throw them out and start anew with expensive designer-brand Q-tips? Or tough it out with each sub-standard Q-tip screaming "I don't care enough about you to have enough cotton on my tip?" Is this a self-esteem issue?
Sincerely,
A Cotton Consumer
Dear CC:
What Dish really wants to know is: What are you using these Q-tips for? The answer to that question had better not be ear cleaning. Everyone knows that Q-tips should never be used to clean your ears since you may cause infection, perforate your ear drum or push wax so far into your ear canal that you have to get your doctor remove it. You definitely want to avoid any of these scenarios, particularly if you are having as much trouble finding a doctor as Dish did. Washing the outside of your ear with a washcloth should be sufficient.
That being said, faux Q-tips are actually far more effective for things like make-up application since their lack of cotton makes them more precise and does not leave any cottony residue in places where you don’t want it.
Whatever you do, do not throw out the faux Q-tips. This would not be environmentally responsible. Now, this may come as a shock to you but, since Q-tips (faux or real) are unable to scream, the taunting voices that you hear when using them are actually all in your mind. So, either suck it up and use the faux Q-tips (for non-ear-related purposes only) or give them away to someone who will. One way to find just such a person is to post an ad on craigslist or kijiji.
Dish
posted by Dish @ 4:13 PM
1 Comments:
I concur on the make-up front. Nary a female need ever suffer from mascara smudgage again!
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